Worldwide food trends

Find out what Responsible Travel recommends when it comes to worldwide food trends with ideas on new things to try, tips for cooking, unusual ingredients and secret foodie hot spots to help you spot a trend from a fad without the faff in between.

Cooking & food trends

What does responsible travel recommend?

Ten years ago, few people had even heard of noma in Copenhagen. Now it's celebrated as 'The World's Best Restaurant', and Nordic food is a star among worldwide food trends. In the same time, Vietnamese food has gone from exotic to mainstream, while rustic French cooking has become as celebrated as haute cuisine. Other trends have highlighted foraged flavours, newly hip foodie countries like Peru or niche regional menus espousing the joys, say, of Sichuan food rather than the Cantonese dishes that once dominated 'Chinese' meals. Every time you open your mouth to eat, open your mind too.

Trends to explore

New things to try

Unfamiliar wines

Discovering new wines is a pleasure of many trips. Greece and Romania are little-known viniculture stars, while India, Morocco, Turkey, Japan and China make quaffable wines too. Or uncork unfamiliar regions: in Spain, order Extremadura; in Argentina, sip Jujuy or Salta; in Italy, try red Teroldego or white Pecorino.

Tips for cooking & food trends

responsible travel asks the experts

“Peru has been voted World’s Leading Culinary Destination at the World Travel Awards three years running. It’s burst onto the world’s gastronomic scene with a diversity of flavours second to none. Start with the national dish, ceviche - fresh fish “cooked” in lime juice with garlic, coriander, red onion and chilli. It’s perfect for lunch with a sea view on a summer day, washed down with a pisco sour, the country’s famous cocktail.

Heading into the Andes, take part in a local pachamanca ceremony in the Sacred Valley near Cusco. This ancient Inca ritual involves cooking local meats and vegetables in an earth oven covered by hot stones. Absolutely sensational. While in the Andes, try cuy (roast guinea pig). Yes, they make good pets - but they also make good dinners!”

Animesh Khandkar the leader of our supplier Intrepid's Real Food Adventure India picks out truly heavenly food in his worldwide food trends: “Food is not just a fuel for the body but an essential element of a number of religions. Visit the langar (community kitchen) in a Gurudwara (Sikh temple) and witness food being treated with piousness and reverence. Large pots of food are prepared at these temples and thousands are fed free of charge, three times a day.”